Word: proudest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...others, he is an impersonal bronze statue in the delta, valuable only as a subject for cartoonists. But that name and that statue have a deeper significance. The pensive young Puritan seated in the shadow of Memorial Hall embodies in a way the spirit that the University is proudest to foster: an earnest thoughtfulness. John Harvard was a young nonconforming divine who came to this continent in the early days of the colony in search of freedom for his thought and teaching. He was not much over thirty when he died, leaving half his fortune and his whole library...